Clothes-pin.



`N0."834.21o. PATBNTED 00T. 23, 1906. G. A. LANGIAUX MA, SAUMUR.

CLOTHES Pm.

APPLICATION FILED JA}1.17,19OE.

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` the pin adjacent to the UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE;

GEORGE A. LANCIAUX AND AMEDEE SAUMUR, oiriNDi'AN ORCHARD,

' MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES-Pm.

4Specication of'Lettei-s Patent.

Application led January 1'7, 1908. Serial No. 296,586.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that we, GEORGE A. LANciAUx and AMEDE Saumur., citizens ofthe llnitedV States, residing` at Indian Orchard, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of a novel form of that type of clothes-pins utilizing a rigid reinforcing-band which embraces the body of inner terminal of the slotted portion thereof.

The reinforcing-band is designed to prevent splitting of the pin; and the essential feature of the invention resides in the special construction of the pin-band, as will be hereinafter more clearly set forth.

-'For a full description of thejnventio'n and the merits thereof. and also to acquire a knowledge of. the details ofl construction of the means foreiectingtheresult reference -.lng in secti vn and parteA oft faway. Fig. 3 is aside view of a modifica- 3otion, the bandlbe'ing in section; and 4 is l.an enlarged sectional form of reinforcing-band.'

is to be had to the following description and i accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 isa side elevation of a clothes-pin constructed in accordance with, our invention. Fig. 2 is a similar viewthe band behe pin broken view. of a modified Corresponding and like parte are referred to in thefollowin description and indicated in all the views o the drawings by the saine reference characters.

-The numeral 1 'designates a clothes-pin which is practically the same in construction as -those in common use., except that one end thereof is reduced in cross-section. In the drawings the head of the clothes-pin is reduced at 2, and this reduced portion extends entirely to the upper end of the pin, While the opposite end terminates in a shoulder 3, W ich is located slightly above the top of the slot 4 in the pin. In order to prevent the l splitting of the pin. a reinforcing-band 5 is p ped over the reduced portion 2 ofthe pin, so as to lit a ainst the shoulder 3. This rei`i1. forcing-bang is preferably formed of metal and corresponds in thickness tothe depth of the shoulder 3. This latter feature nrcduces `ai Hush joint between the two mem rs and does away with 'any outwardly-projecting shacorners.

T e ba'nd 5 may he hold in position in any of several manners, as may be preferred. In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 this result is accomplished by means of`indentations 6 in the periphery of the band, which are formed by punching the metal and forming a. close engagement with the `rood to pre-r vent any longitudinal or rotative movement of the band upon the clothespin.-

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reduced portion of the i Another method of accomplishing the saine result is by crimping the upper edge of the band 5r into an engagement with the wood, as is shown in Fig. 3. 'Vl/'hen the lastmentioned method is em lo ed, the u per edge of the band 5 is prefiirahly reduce by lieveling the same inwardly, as seen at 7, and an annular groove 8 is formed in the reduced portion 2 of the in immediately under the upper edge of the and 5 when the latter is in position. It will thus be apparentthat by crimping the thin upper edge 7 of the band into an engagement with the annular groeve 8 the baud will be held securely in position. Since this band 5 fits tightly around the head of the pin adjacent the upper end of the slot 4, it will be readily understood that any s litting of the pin will he prevented and that the life of the definitely,` thereby the slight increase in cost of manufacture.

vThe formation of the shoulder 3 near the to, of the slot 4 of the pin and of the upper recIluced end portion of the body ofthe pin is such that the reinforcing-band 5 when sli ped over the reduced portionof the pin wi l be fixed in its disposition upon the body 'of the latter by the limiting action incident to engagement of the lower edve of the band with said shoulder `3. The. and .5 is of course of fixed diameter in order to reduce the cost of manufacture of the article to a pin will be prolonged. in.I repayi'ng many times for 85 minimum, and the indentation @Tas well as 'f the crimped upper edge 7, of the bands 5 (shown in the modifications in the drawings) constitu te pressed portions of the hand positively 'en aging the body of the pill to iold said han from displarmnem.

Having thus described the invent ion, what is claimed ab new isN Y As a new article of manufacture, a clothes IOC 5 the Bead and upper reduced portlop of the xo tions t ereof pressed into engagement with pin ha he hln-.d met img 11nd Imntigz; i the of hs pin m prwwt displemc-nt thereof, zd so es an )mamie n snmxidr ufaui f adjantt the to of the slot o mid pin, and In testlmnny whereof We affix our signaa mtl bnd of d dimeber sipncd over turni in presen@ of we witnesses.

GEORGE A. LANCIAUX. {La} MDE SAUMUR. [L s.

body of the in und having :te lower edge abutting wit the shoulder afoxesaid :pmi xed in lts disposition on the bdy of the pin thereb the reinforcjng-band having p0r- Witnesses:

M. L. CAYIN, V. A. DUPussxs. 

